Meanings
- obsoleteastronomyThe Big Dipper.
By this the Northerne wagoner had set His sevenfold teme° behind the stedfast starre, That was in Ocean waves yet never wet, But firme is fixt, and sendeth light from farre To all that in the wide deepe wandring arre:
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, , stanzas 1-5, page 11 more example
1613, Thomas Heywood, An Epithalamion, or Nuptiall Song, A Marriage Triumph on the Nuptials of the Prince Palatine, and the Princess Elizabeth, Daughter of James I, London: Reprinted for the Percy Society, 1842, p. 8, The Northern Waggoner stands next in the roll, Whom Perseus with his shield frights ’bout the pole,
Synonyms: Big Dipper, Charles' Wain, Drinking Gourd, Northern Ladle, Plough, Wain
Synonyms & antonyms
proper nounThe Big Dipper.
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Northern Waggoner. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Northern%20Waggoner
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